--Thank You, Father, for making us in Your image, so we can grow, love, and become more like You, In Jesus Name ~ amen"

---"And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man." --[Luke 2:52 / ESV]

---As a lifelong cook, I've always loved Thanksgiving. At twelve, I proudly took over from my dad the cooking of our traditional meal: turkey with bread stuffing, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, special cranberry-orange-apple-walnut relish, a gratin of little onions, marshmallow yams, rolls and pies.

My Thanksgiving prayer is one I pray all year and my girls pray it as well. To teach others to love Jesus and others.

Cooking bored the girls as kids, but when they turned twelve I assigned each a task: Charlotte the stuffing and Louise the cranberry relish. As they got older, they took charge of the pies, and being decorative, with special dough lattices and leaf-shaping with sugar sparkles.

This year only Louise came home, though. Charlotte had gotten a puppy and immediately became its mom. She texted that she would not be coming home
Thanksgiving was enjoyable but not the same. Things change. Only Jesus never changes.

Then I realized that, my Thanksgiving prayer for the girls was answered. They have grown up, nurturing others. ~~
--Guideposts/PK~